[Bug 2018996] Re: whoopsie uses 100% CPU indefinitely on chrome crash file

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: whoopsie (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  whoopsie uses 100% CPU indefinitely on chrome crash file

Status in whoopsie package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  $@ lsb_release -rd
  No LSB modules are available.
  Description:    Ubuntu 23.04
  Release:        23.04

  
  $@ apt-cache policy whoopsie
  whoopsie:
    Installed: 0.2.77
    Candidate: 0.2.77
    Version table:
   *** 0.2.77 500
          500 http://jp.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu lunar/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  
  TL;DR whoopsie will happily consume 100% for hours in what seems like a pretty futile attempt to deal with massive crash files. It should be more aware of what is a realistic crash to upload.

  This has happened a couple of times today, so I searched, found

  https://askubuntu.com/questions/1245078/woopsie-upload-all-process-
  consumes-cpu-100/1296481#1296481

  which suggested looking in /var/crash/

  where I found

  $@ ls -lh /var/crash/
  total 8.3G
  -rw-r----- 1 fergal       whoopsie 8.3G May  8 23:03 _opt_google_chrome_chrome.1000.crash

  I don't know what whoopsie was doing but I doubt that was ever going
  to be productive and I cannot have a service that is going to
  occasionally use 100% CPU for hours.

  Here's what `top` had to say before I killed it

    94802 root      20   0   11.7g  11.3g  58624 R 100.0  36.6 108:11.76
  whoopsie-upload

  So it had been trying for 108 minutes and was using 11G of RAM.

  I would love to enable crash reporting but this is unacceptable. I've
  deleted the crash file and uninstalled whoopsie. I'll happily
  reinstall it if it gains some safeguards against this kind of thing.

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